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That’s kind of my point. Where’s his Reddit account ranting about the evils of capitalism? Where’s his #girlsforkamala posts on Instagram?
The entire internet is scouring for this stuff, and we’re simply not finding anything. We’re finding less on his politics over his entire life than you’d find about mine in the past 3 hours of my posts.
I’m going to call that a non-political person, I’m sorry. The replies I’m getting just reek of wanting him to be Political so you can say he was radicalized by le evil leftists and start your Long March through their institutions. I don’t need to come here to get that analysis. It’s already all over Twitter. Just go play over there, that’s where your friends are.
This is nonsense. All it takes for a Reddit/Twitter/etc. account to not be found by people on the internet is for it to have a unique username, that doesn't indicate a lack of interest in politics. Furthermore even if he didn't have social media account most people are lurkers and that wouldn't prevent him picking up political ideas from the internet any more than it prevented him picking up the internet memes. Even in the fairly unlikely event that he picked up stuff like "Bella ciao" from people he knew in real life that would most likely imply a general interest in politics rather than your highly specific hypothetical of politics as purely an extension of interpersonal relationships.
If you shot someone would randoms on the internet reading your real name realize you were "Soteriologian"? Would they be able to find it even if they found out the Steam username of your romantic partner?
I think one reason you are receiving a negative response is that your posts are dripping with contempt towards the mainstream speculation yet it's evident you've put minimal careful thought into your own speculation. It comes across as motivated by a sort of contrarian elitism where you don't want to be one of those people so you have to come up with some highly specific scenario which you think is sufficiently different from what they believe. (And engaging in such obvious motivated reasoning also makes some people assume your motive is sympathy for the shooter.) In just the prior post you somehow misread rDrama enough to think it was his Reddit account rather than his partner's and declared LoveForLandlords a subreddit for mocking the working class and LGBT with the implication that this reflects on his politics (ironic since the actual user was transgender). Having had this revealed you move on without comment and leap from "not finding social media accounts" to "those accounts don't exist" to "he didn't care about politics".
Such a specific scenario is much less likely to begin with than the broader "motivated by left-wing ideology" and the latter also seems to be supported by the evidence. Whatever their flaws the Twitter partisans you're contemptuous towards seem to have a better grasp of the situation than you. I think you would have had a much less negative reception if you had posted without the unwarranted confidence and contempt, something like "Now that we know the identity of his romantic partner, what do people think the chances are his feelings towards Charlie Kirk are downstream of that instead of broader ideological sentiment?" and then laid out your scenario. People still wouldn't have agreed with it because it's a pretty specific and unlikely seeming scenario and the casings point towards broader "anti-fascist" sentiment, but you wouldn't have irritated people as much.
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Your asinine fanfiction is getting exactly the reception it deserves. Just flounce away in a huff already, I don't get the impression that anyone will care.
Be less antagonistic.
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Please don't try to drive off the few counter-contrarians we have left here.
He's not a counter-contrarian, he's an rdrama troll (or at least has rdrama tells) who used to post here before (since he complains about how this place went downhill), though I don't have such encyclopedic knowledge to know which one he is.
Making shit up based on his headcanon and then rejecting all actual evidence to the contrary is...not high quality discourse.
Which is perhaps not ideal and not high quality, but even shoddy disagreement seems like a necessary component for the Motte to function as intended.
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I’ve gotten several good responses.
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